Omaha daily bee., 1887-12-26
A MODEL WESTERN ROBBER,
How Mr.. Newsome Cleaned Out tho
San Angelic Stage.
ANTICS OF A TEXAS HioAwAYMAN
He Divided the Plumber with Those
He had Dcspoiicd-A Mistake IN
the Reckoning - Drinking
with the Passengers.

the penitentiary for life. He is five
feet eight inches high; weighs 1SO
pounds, has sandy hair. mustache and
goatee; his eyes are small and gray,
slightly crossed, and with II nervous,
habitual twitching that gives him a
scared appearance. He has n small
nose, with receding forehead, upon
which is matted growth of unkempt
hair. His shoulders rise up around his
neck, giving it sunken appearance.
He linps slightly, having been shot in
the right foot. He is twenty-five years
old, and claims to have no education
write. When he was arrested he wore
a flannel overshirt, with an immense
Mexican sombrero gaudily decorated
with tinsel. His pants were showed
down in his boots, which had heels
three inches long, tapering to point.
Eight years ago he was found on the
bank of theRConcho river by Mr.. Rich
Coffee, farmer living near Paint Rock,
Runnels county. Newsome had been
shot in the foot and tainted from loss of
blood. Old man Coffee lifted him on
his horse and carried him home, where
his wound was sufficiently healed for
him to ride again, but his horse was not
to be found. Ncwsome said that he was
passing through that part of the country
with other cowboys and that they be-
came involved in dispute about the
ownership of tin cantcen. Ho was
shot, robbed and deserted. Mr.. Coffee
gave him work to do in looking up cat
tie that were lost from the herd, and
found that NewsOme was very expert at
it. Some cattlemen in that region think
he was too expert, as he managed to ac-
cumulate quite little herd on his own
| account. On the 18th of September he
was offered a very lucrative position
Sl5 a month-to herd horses, and left for
the house of Mr.. Ransberger, who lived
| u few miles away.
1t was at this point that the ambition
! of the cowboy became stirred with the
idea of becoming a banker. He reas-
oned: GA bank must have depositors;
people will not voluntarily leave their
money with me, ergo, / must compel
them" A few nights later the most
| wonderful feat of stage robbing on rec
ord startled the whole state of Texas,
and the moonlight bankers cash capital
was over 81 200.
1t was II o'clock at night on the Goth
of September and the stage was filed.
| There were seven drummers on it who
| itlu DSSh w ooi HhhS NAoh pAOii otbhA-
| pies and were eager to get to Bal
linger, the nearest railroad point. San
Anglo Is very important town in the
western part of Texas, and is the cOun-
ty seat of that enormous district called
Tom Green county, which has an area of
10000 square miles. The stage was but
twelve miles from Ballinger; and each
mile post was counted impatiently by
the weary mon.
mounted highwayman, with gleam-
ing pistol, suddenly halted them spring.
ing up miraculously as if from the very
earth.
"Hold up, gentlemen! Stop your team,
driver! Gentlemen, will you please
oblige me by getting out of the stage?
This side, please. Now stand in u row
with your hands up while place these
slicker caps over your heads to prevent
your seeing what do. Pardon me for
running my hands down in your pockets
and searching you, but 1 must get your
money, and l want you to keep your
hands up"
When he had finished with the pas
sengers and had rifed the mail bags,
he made a mental inventory of his pos
sessions and found that he had 81 ,l7S in
money, seven watches and four pistols.
Then he removed the bag-like caps he
| had placed over their heads, and said:
''Gentlemen, am sorry to detain you
longer, but / have made up my plans to
rob that stage coming from Ballinger,
and you must wait here until it comes
up. Business is business, you know"
He then sat down and began to look
over the Doodle, while the passengers
lOitered about and amused themselves
as best they could under the circum-
stances. Among confscated pistols was
found small 22-caliber weapon, and the
highwayman yelled out.
"Here, who in HI owns this dog
gasted, measly, two-bit toy gun?"
81 did" said one of the passengers.
"Well, I'm going to make you take it
back. If the boys were to find that on
me they would swing me up for con-
tempt"
'Mr. Robber," said a Dallas drum
mer. "You haven't treated me white.
You have cleaned me out entirely, and
| won't be able to get hOmc."
SIS that so? Well, I'll do this: I'm
no hog; I'll give every man per cent
of what / took from him for travelling
expenses"
"You have no use for that watch OF
mine," said Mr.. Kaufman, "and you
can't sell it, because my name is en-
grayed in it; won't you give it back to
me?"
Here you take the whole lot of thom;
they are not much account; there ain t
good one in the lot"
Pardon" said the driver. tits
mighty cold sitting here; can't you set
'em up to something to drink?"
THAT'S whatever, you all just wait
here few minutes"
He lcaped OH his horse, which had re-
mained near them grazing, galloped oil
rapidly and disappeared in a small
chaparral thicRet near by, and almost
instantly was seen to emerge again,
holding high in his left hand two quart
} bottles of whisky. He suddenly reined
up his horse when about fifty feet from
the men and said:
Il know that while | was gone you
fellows were laying some scheme to take
} me. | suppose you think you will shoot
me with that little pistol. Now. don't
want to have this evenings entertain
} ment wind up in row, and am going
to make every fellow come up and get
, | his drink one at a time"
!, The whisky put every one III Jolly
good humor, and it was generally agreed
: that if it we're not for his cratic ideas OF
meum and tcum the robber would be q
clever fellow. Newsome went TO work
, | 10 ,o,,,t ,vn, his Gains auaiu. MAX NJ